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You could also look for 'The Time of My Life' by Denis Healey, sometime Labour chancellor of the Exchequer, and quite possibly the best Prime Minister we never had. He's still with us (age 96) and has or at any rate had friends on both sides of the House.
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I really like the song "Some Nights" by Fun. But, what on earth do the lyrics mean? Do they tell a story? Are the verses in any way connected? I'm lost.
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I have found that published diaries have more of the day-to-day goings on of politics than memoirs. No doubt they're just as biased towards the writer's point of view, but they capture more of the actual goings on rather than vague ideas. I'm enjoying reading Ronald Reagan's diaries now.
It's neat to see just how much variety exists in the job of POTUS. Meeting other heads of state, emergency security meetings, appointing ambassadors, preparing speaches, taking a call from a donor or old friend, and meeting little miss Betty McAnybody, winner of the national 'Don't Run With Scissors' safety campaign poster-making contest....all in one day.
It shows some view of how the politicking works. He'll mention that he sent so-and-so off to meet with such-and-such to convince them they should support bill X.
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Hi - I'm hunting for an over-the-top arrangement of Happy Birthday (pref SATB) for a joint 80th/90th party coming up soon. Google tells me that Arnold Bax did one in 1951 which might be rather splendid, but I can't locate it either online or on paper. And the 'Murcans can get a set of eight arrgts by Russell Robinson, but not available in UK.
Anyone got any fun ideas, please?
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I've seen a decorative feature on a building and wonder if there is a proper architectural term for it.
It's a decorative piece on the front of a public building, just below the apex of the roof.
It's a circular stone carving featuring a woman and child who, I think, represent one of the virtues.
I could describe it as a stone plaque, or as a motif, or maybe as a roundel, but I wonder if there's a correct architectural word for it?
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I don't know what started me searching...but...I'm curious to know the derivation of the phrase "By-and-large" . I know how to use it, but I want to know where it comes from. Dictionary dot com says it's a nautical thing, akin to tacking across the wind to make progress. So?
It also offers the following cute limerick:
- "It seems I impregnated Marge
So I do rather feel, by and large,
Some cash should be tendered
For services rendered,
But I can't quite decide what to charge."
Do any of you wordy people know?
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Nautical in origin.
From sailing close to the wind (called BY the wind by old salts) and sailing downwind (called LARGE because if you sail downwind you can use large sails and you'll go fast).
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Qoheleth.: Hi - I'm hunting for an over-the-top arrangement of Happy Birthday (pref SATB) for a joint 80th/90th party coming up soon. Google tells me that Arnold Bax did one in 1951 which might be rather splendid, but I can't locate it either online or on paper. And the 'Murcans can get a set of eight arrgts by Russell Robinson, but not available in UK.
There are a number of SATB arrangements on the internet. I haven't found the one by Bax though.
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![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) How do I work out what kind of these new-style lightbulbs are equivalent to a) a 40W bulb, b) a 60W bulb and c) how do I dispose of any lightbulb containing mercury - which I'm really not keen to buy but may have to - I assume they should not go into the glass recycling bins?
Any advice gratefully received. There's no clue on the packaging and I don't know what a 7W light bulb might be used for.
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I think I have old enough packaging at home to give me equivalents to double check this but 7W I think is equivalent to 40W in old money, 11W to 60W and 15W to 100W
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Curiosity killed ...: I think I have old enough packagmg at home to give me equivalents to doubles check this but 7W I think is equivalent to 40W go old money, 11W to 60W and 15W to 100W
Hmm, I see a rule there somewhere ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Our local dump has a special bin for low energy bulbs.
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Originally posted by L'organist:
Nautical in origin.
From sailing close to the wind (called BY the wind by old salts) and sailing downwind (called LARGE because if you sail downwind you can use large sails and you'll go fast).
Also the origin of the title of the Shipping Forecast theme music - 'Sailing By', which does not mean 'Sailing Past'!
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Low energy bulbs (CFLs) are a pain. Even now, they take time to "warm up" to their full brightness - up to a minute. The colour of their light (a.k.a "colour temperature") is less kind on the eyes than the old tungstens. And, of course, they're an environmental nightmare, containing not only complex circuitry and rare earth elements, but also small amounts of mercury, which means that if you break the glass on one, they automatically become "hazardous waste".
As regards equivalence to the old tungstens, they're never an exact replacement, but the wiki table that BroJames linked to is rather better than the claims made on most bulb packaging, which tends to overestimate the brightness of the CFL. As a rough guide, I'd say look for the one you think you need, and then go for the next strength up.
I haven't looked into LEDs much, but in the next couple of years they should be a better bet than CFLs. They're very expensive, but last even longer than the CFLs - up to 50,000 hours compared to a CFL's 15,1000 hours - so recycling may become Someone Else's Problem!
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I have a question: I have about 50 or 60 theology books I want to get rid of. It seems a shame to send them to a general charity shop, as I don't think they'd shift them and would probably end up pulping them. I did google one agency that claims to send them to theology students in the third world, but I didn't like the agency's (extreme, conservative, literalist) statement of faith, and I don't want to support them.
Does anyone know of a good way of getting these books to a good home?
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Did you have a local SPCK bookshop? If so, was it taken over after the crash and, if so, do they sell second-hand books?
Failing that, approach the local ministerial or readers training scheme co-ordinator.
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or a nearby theological college/seminary.
Also there are some specialist theological book dealers out there, but a lot of theology passes its use by date very quickly.
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Thanks for the helpful advice on lightbulbs. My next question (and this should be my last on this) is: can I put one of these new-style 15W bulbs (equivalent to c. 100W) into an older desk lamp that's designed to take a maximum of 60W, or will the desk lamp overheat? Should I be looking at the 11W(60W) instead?
I have a small and rapidly dwindling stash of 60W lightbulbs but really could do with a brighter light. If I could get away with the equivalent of 100W in a 60W appliance, it would be quite useful.
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Firstly charity book shops like Oxfam might well bite your hand off! It is popular novels that they have far too many of. Indeed if they have a rare text Oxfam sell it on Amazon rather than through a local book shop.
Secondly this seller regularly advertises for stock in Reform. There are others which may also be interested. I have bought from Lund in the past. There is also a small number of second hand book shops that specialise in liturgical material.
As to Theological books going out of date, the scholarly tomes have a far longer life time than the popular stuff. I have stuff well over fifty years old and still valuable on my shelf, my father has even older stuff.
My reason for promoting Oxfam is that when I needed a classical text for my thesis it looked as if it was going to be impossible to find. The copies on the web were well over £100, and it was too specialised for the University Library. However,Oxfam sold a copy through Amazon for £40. I am grateful for them and will be directing some books their way when I sort out my library post PhD.
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Thanks for the helpful advice on lightbulbs. My next question (and this should be my last on this) is: can I put one of these new-style 15W bulbs (equivalent to c. 100W) into an older desk lamp that's designed to take a maximum of 60W, or will the desk lamp overheat? Should I be looking at the 11W(60W) instead?
I have a small and rapidly dwindling stash of 60W lightbulbs but really could do with a brighter light. If I could get away with the equivalent of 100W in a 60W appliance, it would be quite useful.
You will definitely not overheat your desk lamp. The bulb will only draw 15W of power so it will only draw a quarter of the current that your old 60W bulb did, so there should be no electrical overheating problem. It will also kick out much less radiant heat than the old bulb did. In short, it should not be a problem at all.
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Thank you very much. I wasn't clear whether it was input or output. Brighter lights will be great!
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The wattage is the input of the bulb. Lumens are the output. A 15w input in a CFL will give you roughly the same lumens as a 60w input in an old bulb. Thus the energy savings. Less power used to produce the same amount of light.
CFLs are from hell. I hate them. LED is definitely the future.
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I have to say I love my 150W daylight CFLs. A wonderful coloured bright light. Much better than the standard yellowy colour of both CFLs and incandescents. I've not seen an LED bulb that can match them.
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I am with monkeylizard on this one. After I bought my first LED bulb*, I swore I would never buy another CFL. The warm-up time for CFLs is obnoxious. The mercury thing is obnoxious. The newer LEDs are very bright, can be in any number of colors (my multi-colored Christmas lights are now all LEDs). They are brilliant. Literally.
*It is a Philips Ambient LED. 1100 lumens (17 watts). Love it.
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If you liked "The Master of the Senate" the other volumes in that series are worth reading.
I don't read many political books, but I found The Peloponnesiian War by Donald Kagan fascinating enough that I'm slowly reading the larger work it was condensed from. Reading about decisions when Democracy was new and the descent into a destructive war is fascinating and still relevant.
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Some while back, I followed a link in someone's signature line to a store selling, among other things, cute baby vests. I failed to bookmark it at the time, and now I can't find it again. If this is you, or you know who it is, could you let me know please? (Perhaps by PM if no longer in the signature, so as not to advertise). Many thanks!
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Recent sad news from Lampedusa has brought the name to mind again. I am sure I have read a 'classic' English poem called and/or about Lampedusa, but I can't track it down. Does anyone know it?
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I think you mean The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. This is his best-known work although he also wrote prize-winning poetry.
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A curious question arose yesterday and I wondered whether anybody might know the answer, or where to find it?
As most will be aware, the majority of languages distinguish between 'you' (singular) and 'you' (plural), something that English clearly fails to do. Yet English still had both deferential and familiar usage ('thou' and 'you') in James I's time, as witness the KJV Bible.
Does anybody know when the use of 'thou' fell out of the English language in the UK?
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Ariel
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Sort of around the 1600s I think. I've a feeling it would be around the time of the Civil War. Though obviously some groups retained the usage, and others still use it today in parts of the north.
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Thanks, Ariel. I had rather guessed something of the sort, but it does beg the question why? What caused the form to fall out of use? Was it something arising out of the Commonwealth?
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I have heard a story about a duke or earl who was on trial, and objected to being addressed as 'thou'. He said he retained his rank even though he was on trial.
Unfortunately, I can't give you a date for this.
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Originally posted by Darllenwr:
The majority of languages distinguish between 'you' (singular) and 'you' (plural), something that English clearly fails to do. Yet English still had both deferential and familiar usage ('thou' and 'you') in James I's time, as witness the KJV Bible.
Does anybody know when the use of 'thou' fell out of the English language in the UK?
This article, among others, is instructive. "Thou" and "thee" were originally singular, and "Ye" and "you" plural. The plural forms migrated over to the singular side as polite address, and by Shakespeare's time they began to supplant the other singular forms.
A similar phenomenon occurred in Spanish (the voseo, as it is called) and other languages.
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There was a thread on pens a while ago which suggested to me that someone here might be able to help with this. I have a fountain pen that was a gift some years ago and which I use daily. It's a lovely pen, but the lid no longer stays on. I now carry it around bound up in an elastic band, which is scruffy and inconvenient.
I've searched around for a DIY cure, a replacement lid emporium, or a set of rules by which to assess the reputabilty of places that might claim pen-fixing expertise but have yet to come up with anything. If anyone knows of how or where one might fix a willful lid, I would be most grateful. It's a mid-range Schaeffer that's not on their website, so I can't offer much by way of specifics, sorry.
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Originally posted by Darllenwr:
The majority of languages distinguish between 'you' (singular) and 'you' (plural), something that English clearly fails to do. Yet English still had both deferential and familiar usage ('thou' and 'you') in James I's time, as witness the KJV Bible.
Does anybody know when the use of 'thou' fell out of the English language in the UK?
This article, among others, is instructive. "Thou" and "thee" were originally singular, and "Ye" and "you" plural. The plural forms migrated over to the singular side as polite address, and by Shakespeare's time they began to supplant the other singular forms.
A similar phenomenon occurred in Spanish (the voseo, as it is called) and other languages.
Thank you - very interesting
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The use of "thee" was still common in Lancashire when I was growing up. I remember my gran telling someone: "Don't thee 'thee' me!" meaning that the other person shouldn't get too familiar with her.
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"Thou" and "thee" were originally singular, and "Ye" and "you" plural. The plural forms migrated over to the singular side as polite address, and by Shakespeare's time they began to supplant the other singular forms.
Indeed, and it is possible to identify (sometimes changing) relationships in Shakespeare by whether individuals use 'thou' or 'you' forms. In Twelfth Night Sir Toby Belch advises Sir Andrew Aguecheek that one way to antagonise a rival is, "If thou "thou"-est him some thrice it shall not be amiss".
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A query relating to satellite TV and receivers: I have never had satellite TV, but not long ago I moved into a flat that had a satellite dish outside the window and a cable from it coming through the wall, ending in a frayed end of wire. If I decide I want a satellite box, either Freesat or one of the paid contracts, should I be able to use this dish and cable? And what kind of connection do I need on the end of the cable, is it just like a coaxial aerial connector or is it something more complicated?
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Originally posted by L'organist:
I think you mean The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. This is his best-known work although he also wrote prize-winning poetry.
No, it's not that. But thank you anyway. I think I'll need to wait until I'm home and can browse my bookshelves.
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Originally posted by Moo:
I have heard a story about a duke or earl who was on trial, and objected to being addressed as 'thou'. He said he retained his rank even though he was on trial.
Unfortunately, I can't give you a date for this.
Moo
Google confirms recollection that Sir Edw Coke at the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 said to him, "I thou thee thou traitor" which may be what you were thinking of.
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Sparrow
we moved into a house which had previously used Sky TV, but we use cable TV
Our TV has a Freesat decoder which we hadn't previously used.
I just hooked up the satellite cable which the previous owners had left behind into the freesat connector on the back of the TV and it worked.
I don't know if it's a feature of SKY, or if the previous owners had "multi-room" but the cable was "doubled" , with 2 connectors, so I just picked one and plugged it in.
THe connector has a very thin spike in the middle of it, and screws in to the back of the TV , a bit like
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On closer examination it looks like some sort of coaxial cable, there is an inner quite thick copper wire, surrounded by a layer of what looks like insulation, then surrounded again by a layer of copper wire, then the plastic cover. It looks like it would fit the sort of connector in your link, I just don't know how it would fit on!
Might cut a chunk off the end and take it into Maplin's and see what they say.
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On closer examination it looks like some sort of coaxial cable, there is an inner quite thick copper wire, surrounded by a layer of what looks like insulation, then surrounded again by a layer of copper wire, then the plastic cover. It looks like it would fit the sort of connector in your link, I just don't know how it would fit on!
Might cut a chunk off the end and take it into Maplin's and see what they say.
If I remember right, you can get the F-plugs that Wet Kipper illustrated and they fit over the end of the cable - the central pin of the plug is actually hollow and the wire in the middle of the cable goes up inside it. I think I'm right in that - so maybe you could look for a plug first and try it. They should be obtainable from one of the larger DIY stores or, as you say, Maplin.
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Does anyone know anything technical about hi-fi? I've recently acquired (legitimately!) some mp3 files of some vintage classical music recordings. I want to do a little bit of tidying-up editing, using the Audacity music editor, and then dump them to CD. Unfortunately there's a significant DC offset on the recordings and, what's worse, it's not quite constant.
My question is, if I leave the DC offset there, will it damage my hi-fi if I play the CDs? Or should I try the tricky job of getting rid of it? (Tricky because, as I say, it's not constant.)
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Among all the energy-saving tips being promoted for this forthcoming winter, I've seen the old recommendation that you should put sheets of tin foil behind your radiators to reflect the heat back into the room. Has anyone ever tried this, and does it help at all?
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Recent sad news from Lampedusa has brought the name to mind again. I am sure I have read a 'classic' English poem called and/or about Lampedusa, but I can't track it down. Does anyone know it?
You're not thinking of Vitae Lampada? - the Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead -
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Originally posted by BroJames:
Recent sad news from Lampedusa has brought the name to mind again. I am sure I have read a 'classic' English poem called and/or about Lampedusa, but I can't track it down. Does anyone know it? [/QUOTE]
Can you remember anything more about the poem or its content?
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Among all the energy-saving tips being promoted for this forthcoming winter, I've seen the old recommendation that you should put sheets of tin foil behind your radiators to reflect the heat back into the room. Has anyone ever tried this, and does it help at all?
Yes it works. Better still are the insulation backed foil sheets you can get at hardware stores.
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Won't work for us sadly - we have hot air heating.
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